Munodaani

Greetings from Zimbabwe! This is 29-year-old Munodaani from Harare. She is married with two children, both attending school. Munodaani runs a clothing business. The business has been in operation for three years. She says the main challenges faced are transport costs which are very high. Munodaani has requested a loan of $1,000 to buy more clothes for resale. She says the extra income generated as a result of this loan will allow her to build a house for her family. In the future Munodaani plans to run a big company employing at least five people.

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This loan is administered by MicroKing Finance, Kiva’s first partner in Zimbabwe.

MicroKing’s mandate is to provide financial services integrated with advisory services and targeted training to the under-banked but rapidly growing Zimbabwean micro-enterprise sector. The intent is to mobilize the underprivileged as active agents in fighting poverty as well as to accelerate the country’s journey back to economic prosperity where Zimbabwe was once known as the “bread basket of Africa.”

Zimbabwean micro-enterprises are generally run by women and comprise a multitude of business types. Constraints on local production and manufacturing capacity have led to cross-border trading being the most common type of business.